Professor Judith Curry, a well-known Georgia Institute of Technology climatologist, recently resigned her tenured faculty position. She said the "craziness" of climate science was a "deciding factor."1

Dr. Curry has a stellar academic resume. She has authored nearly two hundred papers, is the co-author or co-editor of two textbooks on atmospheric science,2,3 and was awarded the 1992 Henry G. Houghton Research award from the American Meteorological Society for promising young researchers.4 Dr. Curry recently provided expert testimony before a congressional committee on the subject of climate change. The video of her statement, and its transcript, were posted online.5,6

Dr. Curry has long expressed concern about the politicization of the climate change debate and has called for greater openness and transparency in the field.7

Curry stated on her blog, "A deciding factor was that I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science. Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment...."1

Other prominent scientists have also expressed concern that alarmists are being too dogmatic in their claims of the dangers of climate change. In 2011 Physicist Ivar Giaever, a 1973 Nobel Prize winner, resigned as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in protest over its dogmatic stance on the issue.8 Likewise, respected physicist Hal Lewis also resigned from the American Physical Society for essentially the same reason.9

Creation scientists have generally been cautious on this issue, acknowledging that warming has occurred in the recent past and that some of it may be human-caused.10 However, we argue that the alarmism on this issue is unwarranted and largely fueled by an evolutionary worldview.11 As evidenced by the dissent in this field, even scientists who are not necessarily creationists agree that the issue has been overblown. And it appears the doctrine of climate change has so overshadowed the science of climatology that even some secular scientists are walking away from the craziness.